Sunday is Beanzie Day
Or at least it seems so lately. Today Irene (aka Beanzie) got to go to the greenbelt as well as a trip to Home Depot, plus a few rides to the corner store and aside from the time we were at my folk's house attending to some yard work there, she spent the rest of the day on the front porch with us. All that adventure made it hard for her to stay awake and alert on the porch, but she struggled and persevered lest she miss something. I had the camera handy in case we saw the first ever instance of Irene sleeping on the front porch, but it didn't happen. Well, maybe down the road hanging out on the front porch will become routine enough that she will actually take that much needed nap. For now we will just chuckle over the conked out "sack of potatoes" dog that occupies our bed on Sunday nights.

Anyway, we were hanging out today being "porch monkeys" again when I decided we needed an afternoon snack. I took a look around and found we had some left over "smokies" sausages from last Sunday. We also still had chips, but no more queso so I couldn't repeat last Sunday's snack without doing a store run. But smokies and chips by themselves didn't sound like much fun so I came up with what has to be one of the most unhealthiest snacks around. I cut up some flour tortillas into strips, rolled up the smokies in them and fried them thereby making tiny sausage taquitos. Rob thought they needed a side of Ranch dressing, but I would have much preferred queso (which, by the way, is short for "chili con queso" - a mixture of melted cheese, tomatoes, peppers and other ingredients depending on the recipe.) Even without the fantasy sides, they were extremely tasty and we'll definitely have to add this to our list of party appetizers. Well, not that we throw parties much anymore, but ya never know, that could change if our neighborhood loses it's pretentious yuppie-ness due to the housing downturn. But I think that's not likely considering a house down the street with less square footage and goodies than ours just sold for $265,000. Sigh.

We also made a few improvements to the front porch hang-out area today. One very minor improvement was to replace the powerstrip we had with one that has an on/off switch so we could turn all the outside electric powered stuff off with one switch instead of unplugging all of it each night. The other project came about from us lounging on the porch and noticing a cheap, plastic oscillating fan that we had tossed after the remodel. It was spotted with spackle and had been rained on for at least a year, but we wondered if it still worked. And work it did. Not only did it still work, but it also worked just fine upside down which made it perfect to mount to the porch ceiling.











All in all, it was a very good Sunday. My current schedule of six day work weeks means shorter hours per day, but more days per week which has it's advantages, but having only one complete day off work makes that one day being a good one to be a very nice thing indeed.